It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan of the Drew Estate Undercrown lines, especially the Shade version, as I’m a big fan of Connecticut wrappers. The Undercrown Maduro gives you the richness of the Liga Privada line and the Undercrown Shade gives you a creamy Connecticut with some body to it for a […]
Cohiba Royale Toro Royale
The Cohiba Royale was released this week nationwide as Cohiba’s fullest bodied cigar to date. Another milestone that the Royale sets for Cohiba is that this is the first cigar line to be made in Honduras for Cohiba. The Royale uses tobaccos from Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. All the tobaccos used in the […]
Camacho Distillery Edition Connecticut Toro
Camacho released the Barrel Aged series in 2015 with tobacco aged in rum and bourbon barrels. The lines did so well, Camacho decided to do the same experiment with the Corojo, Connecticut, and Ecuadorian lines and age the corojo leaf in charred bourbon barrels. They are using the same blends, but are aging the tobacco […]
Drew Estate BOTL Corona Gorda
The original BOTL cigar was a collaboration between the online cigar community, BOTL.org, and Drew Estate. The original release sold out very quickly and was highly sought after on the secondary markets. I can’t remember which year that was, but I was able to get some of the original release as I was a member […]
Southern Draw Rose of Sharon Desert Rose Belicoso Fino
After the huge success of the Rose of Sharon, Southern Draw released the Rose of Sharon Desert Rose at the 2019 IPCPR. The cigar is a limited release of 75,000 cigars for 2019 with production increasing to 150,000 for 2020 and 2021. The cigar is being made by AJ Fernandez as their in Esteli, Nicaragua. […]
Eiroa Dark Robusto
Once Christian Eiroa sold Camacho to Davidoff in 2008, everyone wondered when he would be back in the cigar business. It didn’t take too long for him to come back to form CLE in 2012 and then brought out Eiroa a year later. Earlier in 2019, they released the Eiroa Dark which uses a darker […]
Espinosa Laranja Escuro Lancero
The Espinosa Laranja has been one of my favorite lines from Espinosa Cigars. In April. Espinosa released the Laranja line in Escuro with 3 vitolas, robusto grande, corona gorda and toro, which was well received. For IPCPR 2019, they decided to release a 4th vitola to the line in a lancero. The lancero is being […]
Punch Chop Suey
Punch released a limited edition cigar last year called the Punch Egg Roll. This year, to celebrate the Year of the Rat in the Chinese calendar, Punch is releasing another limited edition called the Chop Suey. This year, the cigar is being released in a panatela size that is supposed to showcase the tobaccos chosen […]
Romeo y Julieta Cazadores
I’ve usually never liked much from the Romeo y Julieta line from Cuba except the churchills. Their flavor profiles just wasn’t something I cared for. In 2016, I bought a box of Cazadores on a flash sale for a great price, so I figured I’d give them another try as the Cazadores is a very […]
Villiger Cuellar Black Forest Toro Gordo
I have to admit, I’m not that familiar with many of the Villiger cigar lines. It’s not that I’ve been avoiding them, but most of my shops I frequent just don’t carry their cigars. That’s why I was happy went I got a box in the mail with a sampler of their new Cuellar Black […]